For the first time, the Palma Public Library Can Sales, managed by the Directorate General of Culture of the Regional Ministry of European Funds, University and Culture, is offering creative production workshops related to reading and books, both writing and bookbinding and calligraphy, as part of its programme of cultural activities. The offer also includes a reading club, conferences, talks, conversations and commemorative readings. All activities are free of charge.
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The Can Sales creative writing workshop, led by writer Javier Cànaves, is intended as a gateway to the craft of writing, teaching the tools to write a novel, a compilation of short stories or an essay. It is structured into nine monthly sessions that will take place on the first Monday of each month from October to June. The registration period is from the 21st of September to the 1st of October, and the students enrolled will continue throughout the course.
The Public Library of Palma, Can Sales, incorporates creative product offerings into its programme of cultural activities.
The calligraphy and bookbinding workshops, run by the Taller Verd, run by the artisans Paz Alomar and Adriana Forteza, are aimed at the general public, with no prior knowledge. The calligraphy workshops aim to make it possible to encounter the creative potential of handwriting and to disseminate historical calligraphy as part of the cultural heritage, while the bookbinding workshops offer an introduction to the world of books and woodwork by learning the basic principles of handcrafted bookbinding. Registration is made separately for each of the workshops.
The Can Sales programme also includes the lectures in the Writers’ Library series, dedicated to writers who delve into the craft of writing and link their favourite authors with their literary creations. The cycle begins on 4th November with a lecture by the writer Helena Tur on transgression in Mary Shelley, and in December, the writer Espido Freire, winner of the 1999 Planeta Prize, will give a lecture on the English writer Jane Austen. The cycle will continue until June 2023 with writers Mikel Santiago, María Oruña, Elisa Sebbel, Laura Fernández and Bárbara Gil.
Also starting in Can Sales in November is the series of talks and workshops on food and health given by dietician and nutritionist Raquel Bernácer, who aims to show that it is possible to consume in a different way, both for ourselves and for the environment, using local and zero-kilometre products. With this activity, the library is working towards achieving SDG 3 Health and well-being and SDG 11 Sustainable cities and communities.
Can Sales will continue to hold the reading club, an activity that has been consolidated since 2008, in which a group comments on a literary work that all the members of the club have previously read. The readings, selected by the coordinator Maria José García Mulas, are distributed free of charge to all members. In October, the reading club will begin with the reading of the novel The Magician, by Colm Tóibín.
Petit Bibliocultura
The Petit Bibliocultura, the library’s programme of activities for children, includes storytelling, small-format theatre and musical, artistic and robotics workshops, aimed at different age groups. The aim of this programme is to offer the opportunity to experience culture with children, to make the children’s reading space more dynamic and to bring the library closer to families who are not yet familiar with it, through participation in the cultural life of the city.
On the library’s website at www.bibliotecapalma.com, you can find more information on each activity and download the programme for this quarter. In order not to miss out on information about everything that is happening in the library, a Whatsapp broadcasting service is available to users.
The library, very active and connected with its community of users, has for many years developed a large number of very diverse activities, both its own, such as the reading club and in collaboration with writers, publishers, bookshops, the association of friends of the library and many other institutions. In addition, it has always paid special attention to the commemoration of special days for culture, such as Libraries’ Day and Women Writers’ Day.